We have audited the accompanying standalone financial statements of Welspun Enterprises Limited ("the Company"), which comprises of Standalone Balance Sheet as at March 31,2026, the Standalone Statement of Profit and Loss (including Other Comprehensive Income), the Standalone Cash Flow Statement and the Statement of Changes in Equity for the year then ended, and notes to the standalone financial statements, including a summary of material accounting policies and other explanatory information which includes financial statements of Welspun Employees Welfare Trust ("the Trust") for the year ended on that date (hereinafter referred to as "the Standalone Financial Statements").
In our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us, and based on the consideration of the audit report of other auditor on separate financial statements and on other financial information of the Trust referred to in the Other Matters paragraph below, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements give the information required by the Companies Act, 2013 ("the Act") in the manner so required and give a true and fair view in conformity with the Indian Accounting Standards prescribed under Section 133 of the Act read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended, ("Ind AS") and other accounting principles generally accepted in India, of the state of affairs of the Company as at March 31,2026, its profit, total other comprehensive income, its cash flows and the changes in equity for the year ended on that date.
BASIS FOR OPINION
We conducted our audit in accordance with the Standards on Auditing (SAs) specified under Section 143(10) of the Act. Our responsibilities under those Standards are further described in the Auditor's Responsibilities for the Audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of our report. We are independent of the Company in accordance with the Code of Ethics issued by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India ('ICAI') together with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements under the provisions of the Act and the Rules made thereunder, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements and the ICAI's Code of Ethics. We believe that the audit evidence obtained by us is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements.
KEY AUDIT MATTERS
Key audit matters are those matters that, in our professional judgment, were of most significance in our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements of the current year. These matters were addressed in the context of our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements as a whole and in forming our opinion thereon, and we do not provide a separate opinion on these matters.
We have determined the matters described below to be the key audit matters to be communicated in our report. We have fulfilled the responsibilities described in the Auditor's responsibilities for the audit of the Standalone Financial Statements section of our report, including in relation to these matters.
Accordingly, our audit included the performance of procedures designed to respond to our assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the standalone financial statements. The results of our audit procedures, including the procedures performed to address the matters below, provide the basis for our audit opinion on the accompanying Standalone Financial Statements.
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Key Audit Matters
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Auditors Response
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Revenue recognition - Accounting for long-term construction contracts (Refer note 3(A)(ii) and Note 32 of the Standalone Financial Statements)
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• The revenue recognition policy followed by the Company includes revenue from Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts, which is recognized over the period of time using percentage of completion method (Input method), in accordance with the applicable accounting standards.
• The assessment of stage of completion requires significant management judgement, including estimation of total contract costs, evaluation of work completed, assessment of contractual variations and claims, and estimation of foreseeable losses, where applicable. There is an inherent risk that revenue may be misstated because of fraud, resulting from the pressure management may feel to achieve performance targets.
• Revenue is also an important element of how the Company measures its performance. The Company focuses on revenue as a key performance measure, which could create an incentive for revenue to be recognized before the underlying performance obligations are satisfied or based on inappropriate estimation of project progress and costs. Accordingly, revenue recognition over period of time was considered to be a key audit matter.
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Our audit procedures for revenue recognition included
the following:
• Evaluated the design, tested the implementation and operating effectiveness of key internal controls over recognition of revenue.
• Assessed whether the revenue recognition accounting policies are in compliance with the accounting standards.
• Tested the accuracy of costs incurred and reviewed supporting documentation for completeness.
• Evaluated management's estimates of stage of completion, cost-to-complete, and contract variations for reasonableness.
• Performed independent recalculation of revenue recognized over time and verify contract terms, claims and variations.
• Reviewed disclosures to ensure compliance with accounting standards.
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Impairment of Investment in an Associate (Refer to Note Nos. 3 (B)(e) and 52 to the Standalone Financial Statements)
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• The Company has a material investment in an associate company. The Management performs annual impairment assessment for the investment.
• The impairment assessment involves significant assumptions relating to recoverable value. Changes in these assumptions could materially impact the determination of recoverable amounts and the consequent impairment provision, if any.
• Considering the materiality of the investment and the significant degree of management judgement involved in estimating the recoverable amount of the investment, the impairment assessment of investment in an associate company was considered to be a key audit matter.
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Our audit procedures included, among others:
• Evaluated the design and tested the operating effectiveness of the internal controls relating to impairment assessment.
• Inquired with the management of the associate company.
• Evaluated management's valuation model and key assumptions.
• Obtained and verified financial information of the associate company.
• Reviewed the report issued by the management's independent external valuation expert to evaluate the reasonableness of key assumptions. Additionally, we considered external market and economic indicators to assess recoverability.
• Evaluated the financial statement disclosures.
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Expected credit loss on receivables and contract assets (Refer to Note Nos. 3A (xx)(C) and 14 to the Standalone
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Financial Statements)
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• The Company assesses the expected credit
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Our audit procedures included, among others:
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loss (ECL) allowance on trade receivables and contract assets in accordance with the requirements of the applicable accounting standards.
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• Obtained an understanding of and assessed the
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design and implementation of controls over the ECL process and tested the operating effectiveness of key controls relevant to the estimation of ECL on
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• The determination of ECL involves significant
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trade receivables and contract assets.
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management judgement and estimation, including assessment of historical default patterns, ageing of receivables, customer creditworthiness, probability of default, recovery expectations and economic conditions.
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• Evaluated the reasonableness of key assumptions applied in the ECL model, including default rates and historical loss experience and assessed these assumptions for indicators of management bias.
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The estimation of ECL on contract assets
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• Tested the accuracy and completeness of underlying
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involves a higher degree of uncertainty due to
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data used in the ECL computation, including ageing
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the dependence on future billing milestones,
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analysis of receivables and contract asset balances,
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certification of work completed and ultimate
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with reference to supporting records, where
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collection from customers. The assessment
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applicable.
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also requires appropriate segmentation of receivables and completeness and accuracy of data used in the impairment model.
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• Performed independent recalculations of the ECL provision and assessed the appropriateness of segmentation of trade receivables based on shared
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• There is an inherent risk that the expected
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credit risk characteristics.
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credit loss allowance may be misstated due to management bias in selecting assumptions and estimates used in the ECL model.
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• Evaluated the adequacy of disclosures relating to ECL in the financial statements to ensure compliance with the applicable financial reporting framework.
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• Changes in assumptions relating to default
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rates, recoverability and future economic conditions could materially impact the provision for impairment. Accordingly, impairment assessment of trade receivables and contract assets was considered to be a key audit matter.
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INFORMATION OTHER THAN THE STANDALONE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND AUDITORS' REPORT THEREON
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the other information. The other information comprises the information included in the Business Responsibility and Sustainability Report, Management Discussion and Analysis (MDA), Corporate Governance and Board's Report including annexures to the Board report but does not include the Standalone Financial Statements and our auditors' report thereon.
Our opinion on the Standalone Financial Statements does not cover the other information and we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.
In connection with our audit of the Standalone Financial Statements, our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the Standalone Financial Statements or our knowledge obtained during the
course of our audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated.
If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact. We have nothing to report in this regard.
RESPONSIBILITIES OF MANAGEMENT AND THOSE CHARGED WITH GOVERNANCE FOR THE STANDALONE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The Company's Management and Board of Directors are responsible for the matters stated in Section 134(5) of the Act with respect to the preparation of these Standalone Financial Statements that give a true and fair view of the financial position, financial performance (including other comprehensive income), cash flows and changes in equity of the Company in accordance with the accounting principles generally accepted in India, including the Accounting Standards (Ind AS) specified under Section 133 of the Act read with the Companies (Indian Accounting
Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended and other accounting principles generally accepted in India.
This responsibility also includes maintenance of adequate accounting records in accordance with the provisions of the Act for safeguarding the assets of the Company and for preventing and detecting frauds and other irregularities; selection and application of appropriate accounting policies; making judgments and estimates that are reasonable and prudent; and design, implementation and maintenance of adequate internal financial controls, that were operating effectively for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of the accounting records, relevant to the preparation and presentation of the standalone financial statements that give a true and fair view and are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.
In preparing the Standalone Financial Statements, the Management and the Board of Directors are responsible for assessing the Company's ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the Management and the Board of Directors either intends to liquidate the Company or to cease operations, or has no realistic alternative but to do so.
The Company's Board of Directors is also responsible for overseeing the Company's financial reporting process.
AUDITORS' RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDIT OF THE STANDALONE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the Standalone Financial Statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditors' report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance but is not a guarantee that an audit conducted in accordance with SAs will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these standalone financial statements.
As part of an audit in accordance with SAs, we exercise professional judgment and maintain professional skepticism throughout the audit. We also:
• Identify and assess the risks of material misstatement of the Standalone Financial Statements, whether due to fraud or error, design and perform audit procedures responsive to those risks, and obtain audit evidence that is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion. The risk of not detecting a material misstatement resulting from fraud is higher than for one resulting from error, as fraud may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal control.
• Obtain an understanding of internal control relevant to the audit in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances. Under Section 143(3)(i) of the Act, we are also responsible for
expressing our opinion on whether the Company has adequate internal financial controls with reference to the Standalone Financial Statements in place and the operating effectiveness of such controls.
• Evaluate the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates and related disclosures made by the Management.
• Conclude on the appropriateness of Management's use of the going concern basis of accounting and, based on the audit evidence obtained, whether a material uncertainty exists related to events or conditions that may cast significant doubt on the Company's ability to continue as a going concern. If we conclude that a material uncertainty exists, we are required to draw attention in our auditor's report to the related disclosures in the Standalone Financial Statements or, if such disclosures are inadequate, to modify our opinion. Our conclusions are based on the audit evidence obtained up to the date of our auditor's report. However, future events or conditions may cause the entity to cease to continue as a going concern.
• Evaluate the overall presentation, structure and content of the Standalone Financial Statements, including the disclosures, and whether the Standalone Financial Statements represent the underlying transactions and events in a manner that achieves fair presentation.
Materiality is the magnitude of misstatements in the Standalone Financial Statements that individually or in aggregate makes it probable that the economic decisions of a reasonably knowledgeable user of the standalone financial statements may be influenced. We consider quantitative materiality and qualitative factors in (i) planning the scope of our audit work and in evaluating the results of our work and (ii) to evaluate the effect of identified misstatements in the standalone financial statements.
We communicate with those charged with governance regarding, among other matters, the planned scope and timing of the audit and significant audit findings, including any significant deficiencies in internal control that we identify during our audit.
We also provide those charged with governance with a statement that we have complied with relevant ethical requirements regarding independence, and to communicate with them all relationships and other matters that may reasonably be thought to bear on our independence, and where applicable, related safeguards.
From the matters communicated with those charged with governance, we determine those matters that were of most significance in the audit of the Standalone Financial Statements of the current period and are therefore the key audit matters. We describe these matters in our auditors' report unless law or regulation precludes public disclosure about the matter or when, in extremely rare circumstances, we determine that a matter should not be communicated in our report because the adverse consequences of doing
if any, in respect of long-term contracts including derivative contract;
iii. There have been no delays in transferring amounts required to be transferred to the Investor Education and Protection Fund by the Company.
iv. (a) The Management has represented,
that to the best of their knowledge and belief, no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been advanced or loaned or invested (either from borrowed funds or share premium or any other sources or kind of funds) by the Company to or in any other person or entity, including foreign entity ("Intermediaries"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Intermediary shall, whether, directly or indirectly lend to or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Company ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(b) The Management has represented, that to the best of their knowledge and belief, no funds (which are material either individually or in the aggregate) have been received by the Company from any person or entity, including foreign entity ("Funding Parties"), with the understanding, whether recorded in writing or otherwise, that the Company shall, whether, directly or indirectly, lend to or invest in other persons or entities identified in any manner whatsoever by or on behalf of the Funding Party ("Ultimate Beneficiaries") or provide any guarantee, security or the like on behalf of the Ultimate Beneficiaries.
(c) Based on the audit procedures that have been considered reasonable and appropriate in the circumstances, nothing has come to our notice that has caused us to believe that the representation under Sub Clause (i) and (ii) of Rule 11 (e) of The Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as provided under (a) and (b) above, contains any material misstatement. [Refer note 73 to the Standalone Financial Statements.]
so would reasonably be expected to outweigh the public interest benefits of such communication.
OTHER MATTERS
• We did not audit the financial statements of Welspun Enterprises Welfare Trust included in the Standalone Financial Statements of the Company whose financial statements reflect total assets of ' 83.80 crores (total assets ' 0.28 crores net after elimination) as at 31 March 2026 and total revenues of ' Nil, total net loss after tax of ' 0.36 crores, total comprehensive loss of ' 0.36 crores and net cash outflows of ' 2.00 crores for the year ended 31 March 2026. These financial statements have been audited by other auditor, whose financial statements and auditors report have been furnished to us by the management, and our opinion on the standalone financial statements in so far as it relates to the amounts and disclosures included in respect of the trust and our report in terms of subsection (3) of Section 143 of the Act, in so far as it relates to the trust, is based solely on the report of such other auditor.
• We draw attention to the fact that the figures for the corresponding previous year ended March 31, 2025 prepared in accordance with Ind AS and included in the standalone financial statements, are based on the previously issued audited standalone financial statements that were audited by the predecessor auditor, who had expressed an unmodified opinion thereon in their audit report dated May 15, 2025.
Our opinion on the standalone financial statements and our report on Other Legal and Regulatory Requirements below are not modified in respect of these matters.
REPORT ON OTHER LEGAL AND REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS
1. Pursuant to the Companies (Auditor's Report) Order, 2020 ("the Order"), issued by the Central Government of India in terms of Sub-Section (11) of Section 143 of the Act, and on the basis of such checks of the books and records of the Company as we considered appropriate and according to the information and explanations given to us, we give in the Annexure "A" a statement on the matters specified in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Order, to the extent applicable.
2. As required by Section 143(3) of the Act, we report that:
(a) We have sought and obtained all the information and explanations which to the best of our knowledge and belief were necessary for the purposes of our audit.
(b) In our opinion, proper books of account as required by law have been kept by the Company so far as it appears from our examination of those books, except for the matters stated in the paragraph 2(i)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11 (g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.
(c) The standalone Balance sheet, the standalone Statement of profit & Loss including other comprehensive income, the standalone Cash Flow Statement and Statement of Changes in Equity dealt with by this Report are in agreement with the books of account.
(d) In our opinion, the aforesaid Standalone Financial Statements comply with the Accounting Standards specified under Section 133 of the Act, read with Companies (Indian Accounting Standards) Rules, 2015, as amended.
(e) On the basis of the written representations received from the directors as on March 31,2026 taken on record by the Board of Directors, none of the directors are disqualified as on March 31, 2026 from being appointed as a Directors in terms of Section 164(2) of the Act.
(f) The modifications relating to the maintenance of accounts and other matters connected therewith are as stated in paragraph 2(b) above on reporting under Section 143(3) of the Act and paragraph 2(i)(vi) below on reporting under Rule 11 (g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014.
(g) With respect to the adequacy of the internal financial controls with reference to Standalone Financial Statements of the Company and the operating effectiveness of such controls, refer to our separate Report in Annexure "B". Our report expresses an unmodified opinion on the adequacy and operating effectiveness of the Company's internal financial controls with reference to Standalone Financial Statements.
(h) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's Report in accordance with the requirements of Section 197(16) of the Act, as amended, in our opinion and to the best of our information and explanations given to us, the remuneration paid by the Company to its directors during the year is in accordance with the provisions of Section 197 of the Act.
(i) With respect to the other matters to be included in the Auditor's report in accordance with Rule 11 of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014, as amended in our opinion and to the best of our information and according to the explanations given to us:
i. The Company has disclosed the impact of pending litigations on its financial position in its Standalone Financial Statements. (Refer note 49 to Standalone Financial Statements)
ii. The Company has made provision as required under the applicable law or accounting standards, for material foreseeable losses,
v. The amount of dividend is in accordance with Section 123 of the Act.
(a) The final dividend proposed in the previous year, declared and paid by the Company during the year is in accordance with section 123 of the Act, as applicable.
(b) As stated in note 60 to the Standalone Financial Statements, the Board of Directors of the Company has proposed final dividend for the year which is subject to the approval of the members at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. Such dividend proposed is in accordance with section 123 of the Act, to the extent it applies to payment of dividend.
vi. The reporting under Rule 11(g) of the Companies (Audit and Auditors) Rules, 2014 is as under:
Based on our examination which included test checks, the Company has used accounting software for maintaining its books of account which has a feature of recording audit trail (edit log) facility and the same has operated throughout the year for all relevant transactions recorded in the software except that no audit trail feature was enabled at the database level for direct database changes.
Further, during the course of our audit, we did not come across any instance of audit trail feature being tampered with, in respect of accounting software(s) where the audit trail has been enabled. Additionally, the audit trail has been preserved by the Company as per the statutory requirements for record retention to the extent it was enabled and recorded in the respective years.
For Suresh Surana and Associates LLP
Chartered Accountants
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Partner
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Place: Mumbai Date: 14 May 2026
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